1) Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink, P.H.D.:
What if you looked at your ten pound yearly weight gain in a different light and thought, "I am only overeating 100 calories per day and this is not a lot of food. I do not need to change my entire life and count every single calorie that goes into my mouth." What if you chose 3 areas of your eating and cleaned them up a bit. Brian Wansink, author of Mindless Eating encourages people to do this. Choose three habits or areas in your eating life that you can clean up. You might substitute an Americano for your latte and save over 200 calories a day. You might use light margarine on your toast and save 100 calories per day. If you keep a food journal for a week, you will begin to see many areas where a few changes can be made that will result in many calorie savings.
If you can decrease 500 calories per day, you should lose one pound per week fairly effortlessly! That would be 50 lost pounds in a year. Wow!
2) Shrink Yourself by Roger Gould:
You took the quiz and you are an emotional eater! Welcome to the world of being a woman. We all eat for emotional reasons.
One of my favorite books about Emotional Eating is "Shrink Yourself" by Roger Gould. He says that emotional eating is by far the greatest reason that we gain weight and it is never addressed in dieting. We use food to comfort ourselves and smother our feelings. Then we feel guilty and start the process all over again. Somewhere along the line we need to learn to break this cycle of powerlessness. He says that people feel powerless for five reasons: when we doubt ourselves, feel frustrated, feel vulnerable or unsafe, feel rebellious or angry, or feel empty.
*Weekends are deadly for overeating because we eat out so much and can blow a weeks worth of hard work. Before you venture out remember to look up your calorie stats on-line and choose a meal that fits into your meal plan calorie level. It is impossible to eye ball a menu and choose a meal because foods that sound low calorie are not and foods you think are high calorie are often fine. THE MORE YOU KNOW THE MORE YOU CAN EAT!
First of all, this is not a diet book, but a book with strategies for weight loss. It is a book that thinkers will
enjoy. He presents a couple of ideas I had never thought about but are key and really make you think.
1. Think Historically. Most dieters gain back the same weight with the same foods in the same place at the same time of day for the same reasons and the same behaviors. If we did that in any other area of our lives we would make some changes. Wouldn't we?
2. Quit Using Food Baby Talk. When you feel deprived or crave certain foods have you said or thought:
But it's my favorite!
It's not fair that I can't have it!
But I've been so good!
It's my comfort!
It's my treat!
If you have welcome to the club. You might need to grow up in this area. He says most of us do not act like mature adults, but that eating is the one area of our lives that we revert back to childhood. We must develop strategies to give up these childish thoughts and become selective gourmets and stop resenting what we need to do to keep our bodies healthy and attractive.
I loved his bluntness with the truth. Let's accept ourselves as being underdeveloped in the area of food this year and work hard to make some changes and grow up. Tell it like it is Stephen.
4) Review of "10 Habits That Mess Up a Woman's Diet" by Elizabeth Summer:
His book is kind of a therapy book designed to help you understand why you overeat and how to break the cycle and take control of your emotions rather than eating. It is a heavy book but very helpful and full of ah-ha moments.
*Weekends are deadly for overeating because we eat out so much and can blow a weeks worth of hard work. Before you venture out remember to look up your calorie stats on-line and choose a meal that fits into your meal plan calorie level. It is impossible to eye ball a menu and choose a meal because foods that sound low calorie are not and foods you think are high calorie are often fine. THE MORE YOU KNOW THE MORE YOU CAN EAT!
3) Book Review of "The Thin Commandments", by Stephen Gullo:
First of all, this is not a diet book, but a book with strategies for weight loss. It is a book that thinkers willenjoy. He presents a couple of ideas I had never thought about but are key and really make you think.
1. Think Historically. Most dieters gain back the same weight with the same foods in the same place at the same time of day for the same reasons and the same behaviors. If we did that in any other area of our lives we would make some changes. Wouldn't we?
2. Quit Using Food Baby Talk. When you feel deprived or crave certain foods have you said or thought:
But it's my favorite!
It's not fair that I can't have it!
But I've been so good!
It's my comfort!
It's my treat!
If you have welcome to the club. You might need to grow up in this area. He says most of us do not act like mature adults, but that eating is the one area of our lives that we revert back to childhood. We must develop strategies to give up these childish thoughts and become selective gourmets and stop resenting what we need to do to keep our bodies healthy and attractive.
I loved his bluntness with the truth. Let's accept ourselves as being underdeveloped in the area of food this year and work hard to make some changes and grow up. Tell it like it is Stephen.
4) Review of "10 Habits That Mess Up a Woman's Diet" by Elizabeth Summer:
Yesterday, I was reviewing my favorite books for our upcoming Emotional Eating class at Evergreen Hospital. I found some interesting facts in this book, and I will quote her.
- "If you're like most women, you probably rate your eating habits somewhere between "really good" and "pretty good". She then states that 90% of women polled think their diets are reasonably healthy and that almost all of them are delusional!
- 70% of Americans say they are eating "pretty much whatever they want," and the whatever is not the stuff of which healthy, trim bodies are made.
- We're eating more calories and moving less than we did 20 years ago.
- We are currently averaging 158 pounds of sugar eaten per year.
- Most of us eat 11 serving of grains per day, most of them highly refined and lacking nutrients.
- 40% of us are regularly eating fast food weekly.
- We are not eating enough healthy foods like fruits, veggies, and real foods.
Her book then has chapters on Mindless Eating, Your needs, Honesty, Healthy Eating, Planning, Excuses, Moods, Habits, Drinking, and All or Nothing Thinking. I would say that this book is the most practical one that I own for the person that does not want to diet, but wants to make healthy changes to their eating, work on mindless and emotional eating, and also change the way they look at the world. It is my favorite book and she makes it fun and easy to read!
This book is a must buy book for your library! Kerry
